News tagged with b cells
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Immunodeficient patients with secondary lung disease benefit from combined chemotherapy
A team of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute defined a new treatment for a potentially fatal lung disease in patients with a primary immunodeficiency known ...
Immunology
Aug 30, 2012 |
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Mutation ID'd in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
(HealthDay)—MYD88 L265P is a common, recurring mutation in patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, according to a study published in the Aug. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cancer
Aug 30, 2012 |
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Knowing origin of broadly neutralizing antibodies could aid universal flu vaccine design
National Institutes of Health scientists have identified how a kind of immature immune cell responds to a part of influenza virus and have traced the path those cells take to generate antibodies that can neutralize a wide ...
Medical research
Aug 29, 2012 |
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New research sheds light on the molecular mechanisms by which a virus contributes to cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and is associated with exposure to hepatitis B virus (HBV). Patients carrying the virus have a 100-fold greater risk of ...
Cancer
Aug 29, 2012 |
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Double attack on SARS
After the SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) outbreak in 2003, academia experts in immunology and molecular biology joined forces with industrial vaccine production experts in order ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 28, 2012 |
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B cell survival holds key to chronic graft vs. host disease
Leukemia and lymphoma patients who receive life-saving stem cell or bone marrow transplants often experience chronic side effects that significantly decrease quality of life, can last a lifetime, and ultimately affect their ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 16, 2012 |
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New key element discovered in pathogenesis of Burkitt lymphoma
Burkitt lymphoma is a malignant, fast-growing tumor that originates from a subtype of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system and often affects internal organs and the central nervous system. Now Dr. Sandrine ...
Cancer
Aug 13, 2012 |
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Chronic exposure to staph bacteria may be risk factor for lupus, study finds
Chronic exposure to even small amounts of staph bacteria could be a risk factor for the chronic inflammatory disease lupus, Mayo Clinic research shows. Staph, short for Staphylococcus aureus, is a germ commonly found on the ...
Immunology
Aug 08, 2012 |
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Research team finds possible clue to progression of multiple sclerosis
Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers, working with colleagues in Canada, have found that one or more substances produced by a type of immune cell in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may play a role in ...
Neuroscience
Jul 31, 2012 |
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Tumor cells' inner workings predict cancer progression
Using a new assay method to study tumor cells, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center have found evidence of clonal evolution in chronic ...
Cancer
Jul 27, 2012 |
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Helper T cells, not killer T cells, might be responsible for clearing hepatitis A infection
Helper cells traditionally thought to only assist killer white blood cells may be the frontline warriors when battling hepatitis A infection. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study appearing in ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Lymph node roundabout: Researchers probe origin of optimized antibodies against infections
An organism's ability to make new antibodies and use them to optimize its own immune defenses is of central importance in the fight against pathogens. In the case of severe infections, the overall relative ...
Immunology
Jun 28, 2012 |
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Study reveals flu-fighting role for well-known immune component
University of Georgia scientists have discovered a new flu-fighting role for a well-known component of the immune system. Kimberly Klonowski, assistant professor of cellular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and ...
Medical research
Jun 26, 2012 |
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Gene therapy can correct forms of severe combined immunodeficiency
Severe combined immunodeficiency is defect in the immune system that results in a loss of the adaptive immune cells known as B cells and T cells. Mutations in several different genes can lead to the development of severe ...
Immunology
May 24, 2012 |
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Newly discovered breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV
Antibodies that help to stop the HIV virus have been found in breast milk. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center isolated the antibodies from immune cells called B cells in the breast milk of infected mothers in Malawi, ...
HIV & AIDS
May 22, 2012 |
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